bug in gnus-encode-date (in gnus-util.el) with patch

bug in gnus-encode-date (in gnus-util.el) with patch

[Darren/Torin/Who Ever...]

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gnus-encode-date is a handy little function that will turn a mail header
date into an Emacs date.  Useful for user-format functions.

Unfortunately, it has a bug.  It calls timezone-parse-date for the meaty
work returning an array of time elements which are then passed to
encode-time in the appropriate order.  The problem occurs since
timezone-parse-date just returns whatever timezone data was in the
message and encode-time expects the timezone data to be in seconds off
of GMT.

The following (simple) patch fixes this.  It's indented two spaces to
foil patch mangling by pgp.  (patch will still like it.)

  --- gnus-5.4.55.old/lisp/gnus-util.el	Sat May 17 22:37:16 1997
  +++ gnus-5.4.55/lisp/gnus-util.el	Thu May 29 19:14:59 1997
  @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
	   (date (mapcar (lambda (d) (and d (string-to-int d))) parse))
	   (time (mapcar 'string-to-int (timezone-parse-time (aref parse 3)))))
       (encode-time (caddr time) (cadr time) (car time)
  -		 (caddr date) (cadr date) (car date) (nth 4 date))))
  +		 (caddr date) (cadr date) (car date) (* 60 (timezone-zone-to-minute (nth 4 date))))))

   (defun gnus-time-minus (t1 t2)
     "Subtract two internal times."


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